Finger Touch Archive

  • LeapFrog announces Leapster Explorer on exactly the wrong day

    LeapFrog announces Leapster Explorer on exactly the wrong day

    Way to get your news buried, LeapFrog. Oh well. Anyway, LeapFrog just announced the Leapster Explorer, a crazysexycool handheld device for four- to nine-year-olds. The device has a high-res touchscreen and allows for online play. The Explorer takes over where the Leapster 2 left off and supports online play with the LeapWorld kit as well as [...]

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  • The Nokia N8, Nokia’s new flagship phone, is official

    The Nokia N8, Nokia’s new flagship phone, is official

    Every year, like the swallows returning from Capistrano or the tourists returning to Disneyworld Paris, Nokia releases a flagship phone. Sadly, the boatwrights at Nokia haven’t dropped a winner in nigh on three years now and, if early reports are to believed, their new N8 is not looking seaworthy. The N8 looks like the Motorola Devour [...]

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  • zForce touchscreens from Neonode

    zForce touchscreens from Neonode

    Anyone remember Neonode? Apparently we do, but not very well. Anyway, these guys are back with a range of touchscreen panels called zForce. These pads range from 5 to 13 in. widescreen models, and are supposed to have plenty of advantages over current resistive and capacitive panel systems. Well that certainly sounds enticing, doesn’t it? And [...]

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  • Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    Multi-touch scroll wheel could make iPods… ehhh

    So AppleInsider found a patent that shows a multi-touch clickwheel. You pinch in to turn the music down and pinch out to turn it up. Blah-blah. More specifically, the 38-page filing made just this past September describes a “multi-dimensional scroll wheel” that “can sense a moving object, such as a finger, as it is moved [...]

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